Described by Kenneth Rexroth as “one of the most accomplished, one of the most influential” of the postwar American poets, Robert Duncan was an important part of both the Black Mountain school of poetry, led by Charles Olson, and the San Francisco Renaissance, whose other members included poets Jack Spicer and Robin Blaser. A distinctive voice in American poetry, Duncan’s idiosyncratic poetics drew on myth, occultism, religion—including the theosophical tradition in which he was raised—and innovative writing practices such as projective verse and composition by field.
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Auerhahn Press: Books & Pamphlets
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Section A:
This index collects Auerhahn Press publications from 1958 through 1965: from Dave Haselwood’s first publishing venture through the dissolution of his partnership with Andrew Hoyem and the end of Auerhahn Press.
1. Wieners, John. THE HOTEL WENTLEY POEMS
First edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1958
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 6.25″ x 7.75″, 20 pages, circa 500 copies. Printed (and edited without prior notice to Dave Haselwood) by East West Printers. Cover photo by Jerry Burchard. Illustration by Robert La Vigne. (Auerhahn 1)
Note: Printed announcement issued.
2. Wieners, John. THE HOTEL WENTLEY POEMS
Second revised edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1959
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 6.25″ x 7.75″, 20 pages, 500 copies. Cover photo by Jerry Burchard. Illustration by Robert La Vigne. (Auerhahn 2)
Note: this edition has the original text restored.
3. Lamantia, Philip. EKSTASIS
First edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1959
Perfect-bound in printed wrappers, 5.75″ x 7″48 pages, circa 950 copies. Titling by Robert La Vigne. (Auerhahn 3)
Note: Printed announcement issued.
4. McClure, Michael. HYMNS TO ST. GERYON…
First edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1959
Perfect-bound in illustrated wrappers, 7.25″ x 10″, 62 pages, 950 copies. Cover illustration by McClure. (Auerhahn 4)
5. Lamantia, Philip and Antonin Artaud. NARCOTICA
First edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1959
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 6.25″ x 8.5″, 16 pages, 750 copies. Cover photographs by Wallace Berman. Published as “Auerhahn Pamphlet No. 1”. (Auerhahn 5)
Note: Printed announcement issued.
6. Whalen, Philip. MEMOIRS OF AN INTERGLACIAL AGE
a. First edition, regular copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1960
Perfect-bound in illustrated wrappers, 8.75″ x 11.25″, 64 pages, (1250 copies). Cover illustration by Robert La Vigne. (Auerhahn 6)
b. First edition, hardcover, signed copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1960
Hardcover in printed paper-covered boards with leather spine, 8.75″ x 11.25″, 64 pages, 60 copies with 25 signed and another 15 signed with holograph poem and illustration, bound by the Schuberth Bindery. Cover illustration by Robert La Vigne. (Auerhahn 6)
Note: Printed announcement issued.
7. Welch, Lew. WOBBLY ROCK
First edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1960
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 6″ x 8″, 12 pages, 500 copies, illustrated by Robert LaVigne. (Auerhahn 7)
Note: Dedication: “for Gary Snyder / ‘I think I’ll be the Buddha of this place’ / and sat himself / down”
8. Burroughs, William S. and Brion Gysin. THE EXTERMINATOR
First edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1960
Perfect-bound in illustrated wrappers, 6.25″ x 9.25″, 64 pages, (1000 copies). Illustrated by Brion Gysin. (Auerhahn 8)
Note: Printed announcement issued.
9. Marshall, Edward. HELLAN, HELLAN
First edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1960
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 6″ x 8.75″, 24 pages, (750 copies). Illustrated by Robert Ronnie Branaman. (Auerhahn 10)
Note: Printed announcement issued.
10. McClure, Michael. DARK BROWN
a. First edition, regular copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1961
Perfect-bound in printed wrappers, 6″x 9″, 56 pages, 725 copies. (Auerhahn 13)
b. First edition, hardcover, signed copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1961
Hardcover in cloth-bound boards, 6″ x 9″, 56 pages, 25 numbered and signed copies, bound by the Schuberth Bindery. (Auerhahn 13)
Note: Printed announcement issued.
11. Olson, Charles. MAXIMUS FROM DOGTOWN
First edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1961
Hand-sewn in printed wrappers, 9″ x 11.25″, 12 pages, 500 copies. Foreword by Michael McClure. (Auerhahn 14)
12. Reps, Paul. GOLD FISH SIGNATURES
a. First edition, regular copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1961
Japanese binding, 8.5″ x 11″, 84 pages, (1000 copies). (Auerhahn 15)
b. First edition, signed copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1961
Japanese binding, 8.5″ x 11″, 84 pages, (50 copies in slipcase), signed. (Auerhahn 15)
Note: Printed announcement issued.
13. THE AUERHAHN PRESS CATALOGUE
First edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 4″x 5″, 16 pages includes poems by Wieners and Meltzer.
(Auerhahn 17)
14. Lamantia, Philip. DESTROYED WORKS
a. First edition, regular copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962
Perfect-bound in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.75″, 48 pages, 1250 copies. (Auerhahn 18)
b. First edition, hardcover, signed copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962
Hardcover in cloth-bound boards, 7″ x 8.75″, 48 pages, 50 numbered and signed copies, bound by the Schuberth Bindery. (Auerhahn 18)
15. Meltzer, David. WE ALL HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY…
First edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 6.25″ x 8.5″, 12 pages, 750 copies. Published as “Auerhahn Pamphlet No. 2”. (Auerhahn 19)
16. Williams, Jonathan. IN ENGLAND’S GREEN &
First edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962
Hand-sewn in printed wrappers, 6.5″ x 9.25″, 20 pages, 750 copies. Illustrated by Philip Van Aver.
(Auerhahn 20)
17. Spicer, Jack. THE HEADS OF THE TOWN UP TO THE AETHER
a. First edition, regular copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962
Perfect-bound in illustrated wrappers, 4.75″ x 6.75″, 109 pages, 750 copies. Illustrated by Fran Herndon. (Auerhahn 21)
b. First edition, hardcover, signed copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962
Hardcover in cloth-covered boards with leather spine, 4.75″ x 7.25″, 109 pages, 50 copies signed by the author and artist, with an original drawing, bound by the Schuberth Bindery. Illustrated by Fran Herndon. (Auerhahn 21)
Note: Printed announcement issued.
18. Hoyem, Andrew. THE WAKE
a. First edition, regular copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1963
Perfect-bound in printed wrappers, 6″ x 8.5″, 30 pages, 750 copies. (Auerhahn 22)
b. First edition, hardcover, signed copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1963
Hardcover in paper-covered boards and leather spine, 6″ x 9″, 30 pages, 35 copies signed, bound by the Schuberth Bindery. (Auerhahn 22)
Note: Three printed announcements issued.
19. di Prima, Diane. THE NEW HANDBOOK OF HEAVEN
a. First edition, regular copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1963
Perfect-bound in printed wrappers, 5.25″ x 7.5″, 48 pages, 1000 copies. (Auerhahn 23)
b. First edition, hardcover, signed copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1963
Hardcover in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine, 6″ x 9″, 30 pages, 30 copies signed, bound by the Schuberth Bindery. (Auerhahn 23)
20. Brother Antoninus. THE POET IS DEAD
First edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1964
Hardcover in paper-covered boards with leather spine with paper label in plain paper dust jacket, 8.25″ x 10.5″, 28 pages, 205 copies signed. Bound by Jane Grabhorn and Sally Hoyem. (Auerhahn 24)
Note: Printed announcement issued.
21. Deemer, Bill. POEMS
a. First edition, regular copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1964
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 6.25″ x 9.25″, 20 pages, 500 copies. Introduction by Andrew Hoyem. (Auerhahn 37)
b. First edition, hardcover, signed copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1964
Hardcover in printed paper-covered boards with leather spine, 6.5″ x 9.25″, 20 pages, 25 copies signed, bound by the Schuberth Bindery. Introduction by Andrew Hoyem. (Auerhahn 37)
Printed announcement issued.
22. Davis, William. JANUS
First edition:
San Francisco: The Auerhahn Society, Spring 1965
Perfect-bound in printed wrappers, 6.5″ x 9.75″, 64 pages, 750 copies. (Auerhahn 38)
23. Van Buskirk, Alden. LAMI
First edition:
San Francisco: The Auerhahn Society, 1965
Perfect-bound in printed wrappers, 7.75″ x 9.75″, 91 pages, 1000 copies. (Auerhahn 39)
24. Olson, Charles. HUMAN UNIVERSE AND OTHER ESSAYS
First edition:
San Francisco: The Auerhahn Society, 1965
Hardcover in silk-screened cloth-covered boards with leather spine, 7.75″ x 11″, 160 pages, 250 copies, bound by the Schuberth Bindery. Cover art by Robert La Vigne. Author photo by Kenneth Irby. Edited by Donald Allen. (Auerhahn 40)
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Foot
A member of the San Francisco Renaissance poetry movement, Richard Duerden founded the literary journals RIVOLI REVIEW and FOOT, which ran for 8 issues.
Foot
Poet Richard Duerden was born in Utah and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He joined the Merchant Marines and the Marine Corps and was educated at the University of California.
A member of the San Francisco Renaissance poetry movement, Duerden founded the literary journals Foot and the Rivoli Review. His books of poetry include The Fork (1965), The Left Hand & The Glory of Her (1967), and The Air’s Nearly Perfect Elasticity (1979). His poetry was anthologized in The New American Poetry, 1945–1960 (1960, edited by Donald Allen). A selection of his manuscripts and correspondence is archived in the Stanford University Libraries and a smaller selection of his correspondence with poet Philip Whalen is archived at the Reed College Library.
Foot, No.1, edited by Richard Duerdan
San Francisco, September 1959
First edition, hand-sewn illustrated wrappers, 6.75″ x 8.5″, 56 pages. Cover illustration by Robert Duncan.
Contributors: Ebbe Borregaard, Richard Brautigan, Jess Collins, Richard Duerden, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Eloise Nixon, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder.
Foot, No. 2, edited by Richard Duerden and William Brown
San Francisco, 1962
First edition, saddle-stapled illustrated wrappers, 6.75″ x 8.75″, 80 pages. Illustrations by Philip Roeber and Philip Whalen.
Contributors: Philip Whalen, Philip Roeber, Joanne Snyder, Richard Duerden, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Kenneth Rexroth, William Brown, Lew Welch, Leslie Thompson, Jess Collins, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, Suzanne Duerden.
Foot, No. 3, edited by Richard Duerden
San Francisco, Spring 1977
First edition, saddle-stapled illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 12 pages. Cover illustration by Robert Duncan.
Contributors: Robert Creeley, Duncan McNaughton, Richard Duerden, John Thorpe, Lawrence Kearney.
Foot, No. 4, edited by Richard Duerden
San Francisco, Summer 1977
First edition, saddle-stapled illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.75″, 16 pages. Cover illustration by Terry Bell.
Contributors: Lawrence Kearney, Jerry Ratch, Duncan McNaughton, Don Cushman, James Koller.
Foot, No. 5, edited by Richard Duerden
San Francisco, Fall 1977
First edition, saddle-stapled illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 12 pages. Cover illustration by Leslie Scalapino.
Contributors: Leslie Scalapino, Richard Duerden, Michael Wolfe, Ron Loewinsohn.
Foot, No. 6, edited by Leslie Scalapino and Richard Duerden
Berkeley, 1978
First edition, perfect bound illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 9″, 40 pages. Cover illustration by Diane Sophia.
Contributors: Diane Sophia, Leslie Scalapino, Larry Kearney, John Thorpe, Philip Whalen, Diane Sophia, Don Cushman, Sherril Jaffe, Michael Davidson, Michael Wolfe, Duncan McNaughton, Robert Duncan, Norman Fischer, Bernadette Mayer, Peter Rabbit, Richard Duerden.
Foot, No. 7, edited by Richard Duerden
Berkeley, 1979
First edition, perfect bound illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 5.5″, 40 pages. Cover illustration by Terry Bell.
Contributors: Lawrence Kearney
Foot, No. 8, edited by Leslie Scalapino and Richard Duerden
Berkeley, 1980
First edition, perfect bound illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 9″, 52 pages.
Contributors: Keith Shein, Leslie Scalapino, Diane Sophia, Norma Smith, Sarah Menefee, Don Cushman, Joanne Kyger, Larry Eigner, Bill Berkson, Bob Grenier, Jackie Cantwell, Ted Pearson, Marc Lecard, Lawrence Kearney, Jeanne Lance, Duncan McNaughton, Michael Wolfe, Carla Harryman.
Ebbe Borregaard
Ebbe Borregaard’s work was published in the first run of White Rabbit Press in 1958 and then by Oyez using the name “Gerard Boar”, the anagrammatic pseudonym of his last name. He also appeared in several periodicals over the years and self-published some poetry and letters.
Along with his wife Joy, Ebbe owned and operated Borregaard’s Museum and Art Gallery. The idea behind establishing the venue in 1960 was to showcase the creative achievement of the Spicer circle. Helen Adam’s play SAN FRANCISCO’S BURNING was performed by Adam and her sister Pat in that first year. The following year the museum hosted a show of Jess’s work as well as a series of lectures by Duncan.
Borregaard also ran Oannes Press, publishing two titles: Helen and Pat Adam’s SAN FRANCISCO’S BURNING and James Alexander’s ETURNATURE, the latter in conjunction with Open Space.
Moving to Bolinas in 1969, Borregaard was later included in ON THE MESA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF BOLINAS WRITING published in 1971 by City Lights.
Section A:
Books and Broadsides
A1. Borregaard, Ebbe. THE WAPITIS
First edition:
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, January 1958
Hand-sewn illustrated wrappers, 6.5″ x 8.5″, 12 pages, (200 copies). Ebbe Borregaard’s first book. Cover illustration by Robert Duncan. (Johnston A4)
A2. Borregard, Ebbe. LEANTO: THE JOURNAL EXTRACT FROM THE ORIGINAL BY THE AUTHOR
First edition:
San Francisco: privately published, 1960
Illustrated french-fold wrappers, 125 copies, mimeograph. Illustrated by J. Alexander.
A3. Borregaard, Ebbe. [LETTERS TO SPRACH]
First edition:
Berkeley: privately published, 1963
Side-stapled sheets in unprinted card covers, 7″ x 10″, 58 pages, 20 copies. Preface by Ebbe Borregaard dated Christmas 1963.
Title supplied from Serendipity Books Catalogue 35, item no. 36 which also states that no more than 20 copies were printed.
A4. Borregaard, Ebbe. WHEN DID MORNING WIND RIP CALLOW FLOWERS IN MAY
First edition:
San Francisco: Arts Festival, 1964
Illustrated broadside, 12.5″ x 20″, 300 copies. Illustrated by Jess Collins.
A broadside issued as part of the 1964 San Francisco Arts Festival portfolio: A POETRY FOLIO, which contained 11 broadsides.
First edition:
Sussex: Collection, 1969
Side-stapled illustrated wrappers, 9 copies, off-print of pages 25-36 from Collection 3 edited by Peter Riley.
A6. Boar, Gerard. SKETCHES FOR 13 SONNETS
a. First edition, regular copies:
Berkeley: Oyez, 1969
Saddle-stapled printed wrappers, 7.75″ x 9.75″, 1600 copies, designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh.
b. First edition, hardcover copies:
Berkeley: Oyez, 1969
Hardcover, number of copies unknown, designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh.
A7. Borregaard, Ebbe. FRIDAY NIGHT PROVERBS
First edition:
Bolinas, n.d.
Broadside.
Section B:
Contributions to Periodicals and Anthologies
B1. J, No. 1, edited by Jack Spicer
San Francisco, 1959
“Ballad for Billy Swan”, “Ballad for SAD”
B2. FOOT, No.1, edited by Richard Duerdan
San Francisco, September 1959
B3. LOCUS SOLUS, No. 1
1961
“Other stories of the beauty wapiti”, “wapiti 3”, “From ‘Sprach'”
B4. M, No. 2, edited by Lew Ellingham
San Francisco: M, 1962
“October Seventh Poem”
B5. ANGEL HAIR, No. 3, edited by Lewis Warsh and Anne Waldman
New York: Angel Hair, Summer 1969
B6. COLLECTION, No. 3, edited by Peter Riley
Sussex, January 1969
“Childhood of Dwarf Christ 1”
B7. ANGEL HAIR, No. 6, edited by Lewis Warsh and Anne Waldman
New York: Angel Hair, Spring 1969
B8. EPHEMERIS, No. 2, edited by David Schaff
San Francisco, c. 1969
“Eros in Error”
B9. WRITING, No. 4, edited by Stan Persky and Dennis Wheeler
Vancouver: Georgia Straight, 1970
B10. WRITING, No. 7, edited by Stan Persky and Dennis Wheeler
Vancouver: Georgia Straight, 1971
B11. SESHETA, No. 2, edited by Andi Wachtel and Richard Downing
Surrey: Sesheta Press, Spring 1972
B12. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 11, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: The Poetry Project, Spring 1974
“October Seventh Poem”
References consulted:
Alastair Johnston. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WHITE RABBIT PRESS
Berkeley: Poltroon Press in association with Anacapa Books, 1985
Open Space
Stan Persky began Open Space in 1964, printing 50 copies of each issue on a multilith machine (whereas J was mimeographed). Like J, and M, Open Space was a very local (North Beach) magazine whose contents seemed primarily intended for those who contributed, including: Helen Adam, Robin Blaser, Ebbe Borregaard, Richard Duerden, Harold Dull, Larry Fagin, Jess Collins, Jack Spicer and George Stanley. The magazine was also “quite spicy and a little gossipy, for instance, labeling the famed 1955 reading at the Six Gallery as ‘creamed cottage cheese.’”
1. OPEN SPACE, No. 0, A PROSPECTUS, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, January 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 34 pages, lithography printed by Mike Kummer, lettering by Peggy Engle. Translations by Max Knight.
- Contents:
- Stan Persky – “A Proposition”
Christian Morgenstern – “The Moonsheep”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “This ocean, humiliating in its disguises…”
George Stanley – “Choir”
anonymous – “The Constant Preaching to the Mob”
Allen Ginsberg – “Owl”
Richard Duerden – “A Card for the Tarot”
anonymous – “Okeanos”
- Stan Persky – “A Proposition”
2. OPEN SPACE, No. 1, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, February 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 50 pages, lithography printed by Mike Kummer, lettering by Peggy Engle. Collage by Graham Mackintosh.
- Contents:
- Stan Persky – “Come-On”
Robin Blaser – “Psyche”
Hartford Mutual – “No Possum, No Sop, No Taters”
Jess – “Critical Dreams – I (eye)”
Janet Thormann – “The Knight of Cups”
Jack Spicer – “Sporting Life”
Link – [untitled] “the insane lady…”
Link – [untitled] “Like frozen water…”
Lewis Ellingham – [untitled] “Rock, salt and spray, the angels…”
James Alexander – “Amoralesay”
George Stanley – [untitled] “You listen to the leaves, or watch the leaves…”
Helen Adam – “Two Songs for Lewis Ellingham”
Gregory Corso – “Mortal Infliction”
anonymous – “Orders”
- Stan Persky – “Come-On”
3. OPEN SPACE, Valentine Issue, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, February 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 60 pages, lithography printed printed by Mike Kummer, lettering by Peggy Engle. Photography by Lartigue.
- Contents:
- Stan Persky – “Alibi”
C. – “In Despair”
C. – “The Marriage”
Bill Roberts – “Recess”
anonymous – “What Happened : Prelude”
Robert Duncan – “Postscript for Open Space, January 1964”
Robin Blaser – “The Prints”
Robin Blaser – “Translation”
Stan Persky – “Gourmet Cooking”
JA – “‘The Island’ by Robert Creeley”
- Stan Persky – “Alibi”
4. OPEN SPACE, No. 2, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, February 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 62 pages, lithography printed by Mike Kummer. Illustration by Fran Herndon, collage by Graham Mackintosh..
- Contents:
- Cassius Clay – “I’m the King”
Stan Persky – “Second Base”
Jess – “Critical Dreams – II (marginal)”
Jack Spicer – “This is Submitted to Your Valentine Contest”
James Herndon – [untitled] “He went outside…”
Gene Fowler – “The Time Travelers”
Robin Blaser – [untitled] “It is essentially reluctance…”
George Stanley – “Orion”
Link – “Citys Would Make a Masque for Hearts”
Link – “A Poem for Ulysses”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “I hear a banging on the door…”
Robert Duncan – [untitled] “And to Her-Without-Bounds I send…”
Richard Duerden – “Hunger”
Jack Kerouac – “Blindness”
Stan Persky – “A Kingdom”
Stan Persky – “Home & Garden”
- Cassius Clay – “I’m the King”
5. OPEN SPACE, No. 3, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, March 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 52 pages, lithography printed by Mike Kummer, lettering by Peggy Engle. Cover art and illustration by Fran Herndon.
- Contents:
- Stan Persky – “Whan That Aprill With His Shoures Soote”
James Alexander – “Love was Here, for Simon”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “Just because baseball is not poetry…”
Philip Whalen – “Technicalities for Jack Spicer”
Ron Loewinsohn – “The Fifth Circle of Hell that is not Los Angeles”
Jack Spicer – “Predictions”
Jaimie MacInnes – [untitled] “Lime decayed their mouths…”
Jaimie MacInnes – [untitled] “If running stockings…”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “The log in the fire…”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “Finally the messages penetrate…”
George Stanley – [untitled] “Dear Stan…”
Robin Blaser – “2 of Image Nations”
Anselm Hollo – “Air to Dream in”
Marianne Moore – “W.S. Landor”
Stan Persky – “The Wish”
Joanne Kyger – [untitled] “The persimmons are falling…”
Stan Persky – “Home & Garden”
Jack Spicer – “Dear Ferlinghetti”
- Stan Persky – “Whan That Aprill With His Shoures Soote”
6. OPEN SPACE, No. 4, Taurus Issue, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, April 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 66 pages, lithography printed by Mike Kummer and Lee Kummer, lettering by Peggy Engle. Illustrations by Bill Brodecky and Tom Field
- Contents:
- Stan Persky – “Horns”
Robin Blaser – “Sophia Nichols”
Jess – “Critical Dream – III (trial)”
James Dickey – “The Being”
Harold Dull – “The Fire”
David Bromige – “The Accident”
E.B. [Ebbe Borregaard] – “Sketches for 13 Sonnets”
Deneen Brown – [untitled] “Gathered years…”
Deneen Brown – [untitled] “The rectangle of heat…”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “Heroes eat soup like anyone else…”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “Smoke signals…”
Harold Dull – “The Wild Geese”
George [Stanley] – “From Seas Mainly”
Thomas M. Hannon – [untitled] “The angle iron…”
Thomas M. Hannon – “For a Friend Who is Married”
Thomas M. Hannon – [untitled] “Last night…”
Gary Snyder – “Out West”
Stan [Persky] – “Adventurer”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “A redwood forest is not invisible…”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “The whorship of beauty…”
Jess – [untitled] “Dear Jerry Reilly…”
Stan Persky – “Home & Garden”
- Stan Persky – “Horns”
7. OPEN SPACE, No. 4, White Hope Issue, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, May 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 66 pages, lithography printed. Illustration by Fran Herndon.
- Contents:
- Joanne Kyger – [untitled] “Where ever you go I am with you…”
E.B. [Ebbe Borregaard] – “Sketches for 13 Sonnets”
Fran Herndon – untitled illustration
Harold Dull – “Venus and the Moon Poem”
Deneen Brown – “for Bill Brodecky”
E. Poe – “Ulalume”
Bill Brodecky – [untitled] “I admit…”
George [Stanley] – “The Lyre in the East Rising”
George [Stanley] – “The Shepherds Verse”
Jess – “Critical Dreams – IV (haven)”
- Joanne Kyger – [untitled] “Where ever you go I am with you…”
8. OPEN SPACE, No. 5, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, May 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 50 pages, lithography printed by Mike Kummer and Lee Kummer, lettering by Peggy Engle. Illustrations by Fran Herndon, Nemi Frost, Tom Field, Bill Wheeler, and Graham Mackintosh.
- Contents:
- Richard Duerden – “Border: The Sun Imprisoned”
John Ashbury – “A Blessing in Disguise”
Lewis Ellingham – [untitled] “A new log had been put on the fire…”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “Pull down the shade of ruin, rain verse…”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “If your mother’s mother had not riven, mother…”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “What in sight do I have…”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “It comes May and the summers renew themselves…”
Graham Mackintosh – [untitled] “Like Odysseus under the ram…”
Robert Duncan – “A New Poem, for Jack Spicer”
Helen Adam – “Farewell Stranger”
Jamie MacInnis – [untitled] “These are your nights…”
Ronnie Primack – “From a line by Spicer”
Lewis Brown – “Bartok, for Pen Lace”
anonymous – “Book of the Boss”
George [Stanley] – “Two Parts of a Poem”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “Thanatos, the death-plant in the skull…”
Stan [Persky] – [untitled] “a man drawing the sword…”
Stan Persky – “Home & Garden”
Gene Fowler – “Credo”
C.A. Swin – [untitled] “Fourth, ballad, and take roses…”
Stan Persky – “Gemini”
- Richard Duerden – “Border: The Sun Imprisoned”
9. OPEN SPACE, No. 6, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, June 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 50 pages, lithography printed by Mike Kummer. Cover art by Helen Adam, illustrations by Armando
Navarro and Robert Berg.
- Contents:
- Stan Persky – “Orphic Space”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “1st SF home rainout since. Bounce…”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “The country is not very well defined…”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “I squint my eyes to cry…”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “The metallurgical analysis of the stone that…”
George Stanley – “The Gifts of Death, after Virgil, for Louis Zukofsky”
Robin Blaser – “Image-Nations 3”
Robin Blaser – [untitled] “O-friend…”
Lewis Ellingham – “A Cold Dawn”
Deneen Brown – [untitled] “It lit up…”
Wystan – “One Circumlocution”
Lewis Ellingham – “The Perfect Correspondent”
Lewis Ellingham – “The Sleepers”
Lewis Ellingham – “Underweir”
Robert Duncan – “Passages 5”
Robert Duncan – “Passages 6”
Robert Duncan – “Passages 7”
Robert Duncan – “Passages 8”
Robert Duncan – “Passages 9”
Jess – “Critical Dreams – V (ivy)”
Gael Turnbull – “A Voice, Voices, Speaking”
Gael Turnbull – “To be Shaken”
Stan Persky – “A Poem of Light and Dark, for C.S. Lewis”
Stan Persky – “Home & Garden”
- Stan Persky – “Orphic Space”
10. OPEN SPACE, No. 7, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, July 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 82 pages, lithography printed by Lee Kummer, lettering by Peggy Engle. Cover art by Jess. Illustrations by William McNeill, Ken Botto, Fran Herndon, and Nemi Frost.
- Contents:
- L. Kearney – [untitled] “A rock…”
L. Kearney – [untitled] “A certain kind of dusk…”
L. Kearney – [untitled] “I could be wrong except for…”
Hart – “Chaplinesque”
Robert Duncan – “A Note for Open Space 7”
Robert Duncan – “The Structure of Rime XXIII”
Robert Duncan – “Shadows”
Jack Spicer – “Love Poems”
George Stanley – “Songs from Arcadia”
Joanne Elizabeth Kyger – “In July”
Joanne Kyger – [untitled] “there is no meeting…”
Helen Adam – “Sing Song”
Jess – “Critical Dreams – VI (quicksilver)”
Jim Alexander – “Alexander”
Jim Alexander – “Jacob’s Larder”
Jim Alexander – “Poem Toward a Rondel”
D.R. Drake – “3”
Harold Dull – “First Lesson”
Harold Dull – “Second Lesson”
Harold Dull – “Third Lesson”
Harold Dull – “Fourth Lesson”
Lewis Ellingham – “11, 12”
Stan Persky – “Report to the Stockholders”
- L. Kearney – [untitled] “A rock…”
11. OPEN SPACE, No. 8, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, August 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 76 pages. Cover art by Robert Berg.
- Contents:
- Michael McClure – “The Mystery of the Hunt”
L. Kearney – [untitled] “In the children’s forest…”
Robert Duncan – “A Note for Open Space 8”
Robert Duncan – “Structure of Rime XXIV”
Robert Duncan – “Chords”
Robert Duncan – “Spelling”
Robert Duncan – “At Lammas Tide”
Robert Duncan – “Saint Graal (after Verlaine)”
Charles Dodgson – [untitled] “I have a fairy by my side…”
Charles Olson – “Against Wisdom as Such”
Jamie MacInnis – “Every Little Star”
Jess – “Tricky Cad, Case IV”
Jack Spicer “Intermission I-III”
Jack Spicer – “Transformations I-III”
Lawrence Fagin – “from Procris & Cephalus”
Edna Barnes – [untitled] “If beyond passion our love…”
Harold Dull – [untitled] “I’ve listened before…”
Ron Loewinsohn – “The Burden of Loveliness, 1”
Ron Loewinsohn – “The Burden of Loveliness, 2”
Ron Loewinsohn – “The Great Sand Dunes (for Joey)”
Stan Persky – “Muse News”
- Michael McClure – “The Mystery of the Hunt”
12. OPEN SPACE, No. 9, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, September 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5? x 11?, 92 pages, lithography printed by Mike Kummer. Cover art by Harry Jacobus. Illustration by Jess.
- Contents:
- Harold Dull – [untitled] “He tries…”
Richard Duerden – “Iris, Cut for an Intended Painting”
Ron Loewinsohn – “The Step (a collage poem)”
Jack Spicer – “Morphemicks”
Lewis Ellingham – “Nightmare and Dream”
George Stanley – “Untitled”
Lew Brown – “Lionel”
Lawrence Fagin – “from Procris & Cephalus”
Bill Brodecky – [untitled] “Clear face facing…”
Bill Brodecky – [untitled] “In my dream…”
Richard Duerden – “The Air”
Lawrence Kearney – [untitled] “I tell you…”
Lawrence Kearney – [untitled] “Beyond where you…”
George Stanley – “For Bill”
Tom Field – “The Dentist”
Robert Duncan – “Parsifal: The Easter Magic”
Stan Persky – “They”
Stan Persky – “Home & Garden”
- Harold Dull – [untitled] “He tries…”
13. OPEN SPACE, No. 10, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, October 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5? x 11?, 92 pages, lithography printed by Mike Kummer. Cover art and collage poem by by Jess.
- Contents:
- George Stanley – “Elpinor”
George Stanley – [untitled] “I thought of Achilles…”
Ronnie Primack – “Love Poem”
Robin Blaser – “It It It It”
M. Hannon – “Station Crossing”
M. Hannon – [untitled] “My hand goes dark…”
Jamie MacInnis – “Uncourtly Love”
Jack Spicer – “Phonemics”
Richard Duerden – “The Host, September”
Robert Duncan – “The Currents”
Ron Loewinsohn – “some more from The Step”
Harold Dull – “Day”
Harold Dull – “Night”
Lawrence Kearney – [untitled] “Now the winter burns…”
Lawrence Kearney – [untitled] “Tell me nothing now…”
Stan Persky – “The Story”
Stan Persky – “House & Garden”
- George Stanley – “Elpinor”
14. OPEN SPACE, No. 11, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, November 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 70 pages, lithography printed by Mike Kummer. Cover photograph by Margot Prattlesome Dross.
- Contents:
- Ronnie Primack – “V”
Oscar Wilde – “The Harlot’s House”
Harris Schiff – “for Lewis Warsh”
Jack Spicer – “Graphemics”
Richard Duerden – “In the Morning”
Robert Duncan – “Moving the Moving Image”
Michael S. Willis – “A History of I and Eyes”
George Stanley – “Penelope’s Prayer”
George Stanley – “I Thought of Achilles”
George Stanley – [untitled] “The year’s ending…”
M.S.W. – [untitled] “A lover’s face…”
Lewis Ellingham – “Psyche”
Harold Dull – [untitled] “Is he an intrusion…”
Harold Dull – [untitled] “We fought…”
Deneen Brown – [untitled] “Blood colored biscuits…”
Harold H.C. – “The Broken Tower”
Stan Persky – “Home & Garden”
- Ronnie Primack – “V”
15. OPEN SPACE, No. 12, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco: Open Space, 1964
First edition, corner-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 90 pages, lithography printed by Mike Kummer. Illustrations by Jess and Robert Duncan.
- Contents:
- Joanne Kyger – “From Our Soundest Sleep, It Ends”
Robert Duncan – “The Torso, Passages 18”
Robert Duncan – “The Earth, Passages 19”
Robert Duncan – “Structure of Rime XXVI, Passages 20”
James Alexander – “The Greater Happiness”
Stan Persky – [untitled] “The first thing I notice…”
Robin Blaser – “The City”
Robin Blaser – “Saturn, Star of Melancholy”
Robin Blaser – “Orpheus”
Robin Blaser – “Image Nations, 4”
Jamie MacInnis – “Ducks for Grownups”
Thomas Clark – “The Site”
Harris Schiff – “(Unfinished), for Jack Spicer”
Lewis Ellingham – “O, O”
Harris Schiff – “Library Window-sill”
Lew Brown – “To Break the Day’s Contentions”
Lew Brown – “I Hear Chains”
Lew Brown – “O to Reknit this Morning”
Lew Brown – “Blackstone”
Lew Brown – “Tuig”
Harold Dull – [untitled] “When leaves like ashes fall…”
Lawrence Fagin – “from Procris & Cephalus”
Lawrence Kearney – [untitled] “You are more constant…”
Lawrence Kearney – [untitled] “To be more tied…”
Lawrence Kearney – “For Jamie”
Ron Loewinsohn – “Some more from The Step”
Stan Persky – “Home & Garden”
- Joanne Kyger – “From Our Soundest Sleep, It Ends”
Online Resources:
Flying Object – scans of all issues
Enkidu Surrogate
THE SAN FRANCISCO CAPITALIST BLOODSUCKER-N
Published during the so-called “magazine wars” of the early 1960s, George Stanley’s THE SAN FRANCISCO CAPITALIST BLOODSUCKER-N lasted just one issue. Stan Persky, Lew Ellingham, and Gail Chugg edited M, gathering contributions from a box at Gino & Carlo’s Bar in San Francisco’s North Beach. Richard Duerden was editing FOOT; with Ron Loewinsohn he was also editing THE RIVOLI REVIEW, produced in Duerden’s apartment on Rivoli Street in the Haight-Ashbury district. Loewinsohn and Richard Brautigan soon produced another magazine, CHANGE.
As Ron Loewinsohn recalled, “Everybody seemed to have access to a mimeograph machine. You could then put out your own magazine. This was marvelous: it meant instant publication, instant reaction from people.”
It wasn’t until 1964, that Stan Persksy’s OPEN SPACE took up the publishing necessary to the Jack Spicer circle and its friends…
Enkidu Surrogate

From Stinson Beach in the late 1950s, Jess Collins and Robert Duncan published just two books under their Enkidu Surrogate imprint.
The books were distributed by White Rabbit Press.
A1. Spicer, Jack. BILLY THE KID
a. First edition, first state:
Stinson Beach: Enkidu Surrogate, October 1959
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 6.5″ x 8.5″, 16 pages, 750 copies, offset printed. Illustrations by Jess Collins.
b. First edition, second state:
The second state includes holograph corrections to text on page 8
a. First edition, regular copies:
Stinson Beach: Enkidu Surrogate, November 1959
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 71 pages, 750 copies. Illustrated by Robert Duncan. (Bertholf A7c)
b. First edition, numbered and signed copies:
Stinson Beach: Enkidu Surrogate, November 1959
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 71 pages, 50 copies numbered and signed with a drawing. Illustrated by Robert Duncan. (Bertholf A7d)
Note: This is the first complete printing of the play, after a privately printed mimeographed first printing in 1953, and a second from White Rabbit Press in 1958.
The San Francisco Capitalist Bloodsucker-N
Published during the so-called “magazine wars” of the early 1960s, George Stanley’s The San Francisco Capitalist Bloodsucker-N lasted just one issue. Stan Persky, Lew Ellingham, and Gail Chugg edited M, gathering contributions from a box at Gino & Carlo’s Bar in San Francisco’s North Beach. Richard Duerden was editing Foot; with Ron Loewinsohn he was also editing The Rivoli Review, produced in Duerden’s apartment on Rivoli Street in the Haight-Ashbury district. Loewinsohn and Richard Brautigan soon produced another magazine, Change.
As Ron Loewinsohn recalled, “Everybody seemed to have access to a mimeograph machine. You could then put out your own magazine. This was marvelous: it meant instant publication, instant reaction from people.”
It wasn’t until 1964, that Stan Persky’s Open Space took up the publishing necessary to the Jack Spicer circle and its friends…
THE SAN FRANCISCO CAPITALIST BLOODSUCKER-N, edited by George Stanley
San Francisco: Capitalist Bloodsucker-N, 1962
First edition, corner stapled printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 19 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Fran Herndon.
“The San Francisco Capitalist Blooksucker-N, an amalgam of the San Francisco Capitalist-Bloodsucker, a journal of Marxist opinion, and N — the magazine of the future…”
- Contents:
- Albert J. Rutaro – “Mr. President!”
Richard Duerden – “Mr. Boswell & Dr. Johnson”
Robin Blaser – “The Private I”
Larry Fagin – “New York”
Larry Fagin – “Rooms”
Kenneth Rexroth – “The Poetry Festival”
Ron Loewinsohn – [untitled] “The presses tonight…”
Tony Sherrod – “nobody there – but the afternoon”
Maxwell Bodenheim – “End and Beginning”
John Allen Ryan – “The Time of the Snow Flower”
James Keilty – “Stürmische Promenade”
Bob Wrobel – “Puny”
George Stanley – “Terrorism”
Robert Reinstein – “Robert Reinstein”
Fran Herndon – untitled illustration
Jack Spicer – “Three Marxist Essays”
- Albert J. Rutaro – “Mr. President!”